A repository of statements at all ICSF conferences and workshops, beginning 1984. ICSF actively participates in various multilateral conferences—ILO, CBD, FAO, UN-DOALOS among others—issuing statements on important topics. You will also find statements made by civil society organizations and fishworker organizations in several forums.
Women engage in a wide range of activities in fisheries, including paid and unpaid work and liaison with institutions. In several countries, women dominate inland fishing and aquaculture. Their play multiple roles – in seafood processing plants, as caregivers in the family, as the builders of social networks and community.
Gender issues focus not on women only but on their relationship with men, on their roles, rights and responsibilities. They acknowledge that these vary within and between cultures as well as by class, race, ethnicity, age and marital status.
The 2014 SSF Guidelines are based on the principle of gender equality and equity. They integrate gender issues into all small-scale fisheries development strategies.
Committee on Fisheries, Thirty-fourth Session, 1-5 February 2021, Rome, Italy
Thirty-Sixth Session of the Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (Virtual) Thailand 5-7 May 2021
16th Session of the SBSTTA to the CBD
Global Dialogue Forum for the Promotion of the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188), 15-17 May 2013 Geneva
High-level segment to the CBD COP11
Eleventh Conference of Parties to the CBD
National Workshop on Small-scale Fisheries, Cyclone Ockhi and Disaster Risk Management, Thiruvananthapuram, India 29th and 30th May 2018
High-level Conference on Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black Sea, 25 – 26 September 2018, St.Julian’s, Malta
Committee on Fisheries, Thirty-fourth Session, 1-5 February 2021, Rome, Italy
The year 2022 has been declared by the United Nations as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture. In Africa, artisanal fisheries employ more than ten million men and...
31st Session of Committee on Fisheries
Thirty-second session of the Committee on Fisheries. 13 July 2016
Thirty-second session of the Committee on Fisheries. 13 July 2016
Thirty-second session of the Committee on Fisheries. 13 July 2016
Technical Consultation on International Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small Scale Fisheries, Rome, Italy, 20 to 24 May 2013
National Tripartite Workshop on Work in Fishing Convention No.188 Organised by Government of India and ILO
Eleventh Conference on Parties to the CBD
Asian Women’s Consultation on Post-tsunami Challenges